Amos McLemore

Amos McLemore (23 August 1823-14 September 1863) was a Major in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

Biography
Amos McLemore was born in Copiah County, Mississippi in 1823, and he was a schoolteacher, Methodist minister, and merchant before the American Civil War broke out. While he was opposed to secession, he volunteered to raise a company for the Confederate States Army, and he became a Major on 16 March 1863. On 5 October 1863, he was dispatched to Jones County to round up deserters who had returned there, and he was shot in the back by deserter leader Newton Knight at a state legislator's home as he prepared for bed.